Resume
Christopher L. Pearce
Kobe, Hyogo, Japan
Email: clpearce@gmail.com
Visa Status
Japan – Status: Specialist in Humanities, International Service; Expires 28 Sep 2008.
USA – US Citizen
Work Experience
International Public Relations Service Division, Hyogo International Association
Coordinator for International Relations
Kobe, Hyogo, Japan
9/2005 - present
Duties include translation, interpretation, speeches, and planning international events. Other duties include maintaining Hyogo International Association computers and websites. Also serve as an administrator and counselor for foreign assistant English language teachers employed by Hyogo Prefecture.
Freelance Technical Translator
7/2005 - present
Freelance Japanese-to-English translator. The majority of this work is software manuals, other technical manuals, and websites.
Karai.com
Application Architect \ Software Engineer
8/2001 – 9/2005
Researching and developing tools to bring the power and depth of the web-based search engine to all applications through operating system extensions.
Universal Text Manipulation Tool – a tool to allow one to select and perform an Internet search on any text in any Windows program. Written in C using Visual Studio .NET for Windows XP.
McAfee.com
Software Engineer
July 1999 to August 2000
Responsible for porting Windows utilities to the World Wide Web as ActiveX controls. This included the application uninstaller part of UnInstaller 5.0, the file wiping and disk free space wiping portions of PGP for Windows, and a complete rewrite of the on-demand virus scanning control. Created network security controls and Windows shell extensions. Also in charge of double-byte enabling our applications and managing the translation work for the Japanese market.
Network Associates, Inc.
McAfee Retail Software Group
Software Engineer
September 1998 to July 1999
Member of the McAfee Retail Software Group. Responsible for finalizing and shipping First Aid 2000 under an extremely tight deadline. Completed maintenance work on Cybermedia properties so they could be repacked under the McAfee group name.
CyberMedia, Inc.
Software Engineer
February 1998 to September 1998
Part of the shared technologies team at CyberMedia, responsible for creating software to be used among multiple applications. Also explored COM programming, program optimization techniques, internationalization and localization.
Internet Connection Repair
Designed to repair internet registry settings. Used an advanced reusable registry manipulation engine. A component of First Aid 2000. C for Win32.
L’Industrie De Meat
Programming, Web Design, and Graphic Design
Self Employed September 1995 to August 2000
Responsible for software design, programming, web site design and maintenance, web programming, and web site graphics.
f.Search
A better way to search the internet. Local access to 90 search engines. Also integrates into the most popular web browsers. Has been called the best shareware program ever made by users. c|net’s “The Web” Download of the Week. ZD Net 5/5 stars. VC++ & MFC for Win32.
Color Manipulation Device
Best of breed tool to quickly and easily design color combinations for web pages. A favorite tool among professional web designers who feel more comfortable doing web pages by hand than with programs such as FrontPage.
5/5 at Tucows. VC++ & MFC for Win32.
WebCo International
Lead Windows Programmer
March 1996 to December 1997
Lead Windows developer at this startup company, responsible for recreating WebQuick based on a highly popular Macintosh version, and modifying the WebQuick base program to create the next generation child protection software, WebChaperone.
WebChaperone
Next generation child protection software. Created base program, plus numerous prototypes. Has won critical acclaim from parents groups. 5/5 at ZDNet. VC++ & MFC for Win32.
WebQuick
Web surfing enhancement. Saves the last 1500 websites visited. Also works as an inter-browser bookmarking system. Based on the Macintosh product of the same name. 5/5 at Tucows. VC++ for Win32.
Europa Communications
Web Design, Graphic Design And Internet Programming
March 1995 - September 1995, freelance projects.
Created websites, graphics, and form processing scripts in perl.
Skills
Platforms: Win32 - Windows NT, 2000, XP; 95, 98, ME; UNIX, Linux; Windows 3.1; MS-DOS; Macintosh
Programming: C++, C, C#, .NET framework, Visual Basic, perl, java, ATL, COM
Design: HTML, Photoshop, Acrobat, Illustrator
Language Skills
English – Native speaker.
Japanese – Business level.
Publications
An English translation of Mishima Yukio’s play Primary Colors (Sangenshoku) with original historical research for publication in Asian Theatre Journal (Fall 2006). Available on request.
Professional Organizations
Member of the Japan Association of Translators.
Patents
U.S. Patent 6,701,440: Method and system for protecting a computer using a remote e-mail scanning device. Co-inventor.
Education
Portland State University, Portland, Oregon. Bachelor of Arts: Japanese. Graduated cum laude on June 11, 2005.
Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan. Attended from September 2003 to June 2004. Received a certificate of completion from the International Division of Waseda University, June 26th, 2004.
Portland Community College, Portland, Oregon. Associate of Science Degree. Graduated with Highest Honors June 2002. Areas of study: Japanese, Computer Science.
Nagasaki Wesleyan College, Isahaya, Nagasaki, Japan. Attended from September 2000 to July 2001 Received a certificate of completion in the Japanese language and arts program, July 2001.
Beaverton High School, Beaverton, Oregon. Graduated June, 1996.